US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on March 17 for "Navigated handpiece motor current signal and pose estimation based geofencing" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,897, issued on March 17, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (County Cork, Ireland).

"Navigated handpiece motor current signal and pose estimation based geofencing" was invented by Nicolas Demanget (Boston) and Daniel Girardeau-Montaut (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A geofencing system for a surgical handpiece with a cutting surface, including: a motion tracking system configured to track a location of the surgical handpiece; and an event detector configured to: receive a current measurement signal indicating a current usage of the surgical handpiece; receive motion information regarding the surgical handp...